Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have the honor to place in your hands, Most Excellent Sir, the autographed letters of the Most Excellent, the President of the Republic of Ecuador, which bring to an end the diplomatic mission entrusted to my distinguished predecessor, the Most Excellent Senor Doctor Don Rafael H. Elizalde, and which accredit me in the high capacity of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near the Government of Your Excellency...
Miss Ediss not only succeeds in being "charruming", but presents the most amazing resemblance to her predecessor in the role. Perhaps, as Alick Wylie said, it was the curls. How painful was the concern of the three brothers over their sister. Why could not Maggie marry? And how gleeful were they when the luckless John Shand, student at Edinburgh, fell into their cluches and was bound to wed Maggie in return for his schooling...
...predecessor's defeat gave him his chance to become President of the Massachusetts Senate with the inevitable, machine-controlled sequence of Lieutenant Governor and Governor...
...Khan of Bombay, the Emir of Afghanistan, Sultan Mulai Yusef of Morocco, King Fuad of Egypt all wanted to be Calif. The President of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Pasha, said that the Turkish Parliament would in the future impersonate the Calif. Abdul-Medjid Effendi, last Turkish Calif, declared with his predecessor, Mohammed VI, that his deposition as Calif was illegal and sacrilegious. Then from the heart of Islam, Husein Ibn Ali, a descendent of the Prophet, declared himself Calif and without more ado he assumed the Califate (TIME, March 24). A torrent of rage swept over Islam and died down. Husein...
...Treasure Island Was Stocked with Bullion. Here is a sequel that takes the place of its predecessor. It is the tale of how the treasure got to Treasure Island. Not Stevenson, but Smith has written itmple story of an undermanned ship and a force gang. It was the daring plan of his great uncle, the cold, the cool, the calculating Murray, on land the inspired follower of King James, at sea the terrible pirate, Captain Rip-Rap. With young Ormerod is taken his redoubtable friend the Dutchman Peter Corlaer, a veritable Lionel Strongfort for bodily prowess. With them also goes...